Quotes About Society

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

History is the zoology of the human race.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.